AAP's Protests, Theatrics Cannot Substitute Court: Government Tells SC

SG Mehta told the Supreme Court that AAP has been resorting to ‘theatrics’ and protests against LG Vinay Kumar Saxena.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia leading march against the LG

Source : PTI

The Solicitor General of India, appearing for the Central government in the Supreme Court, has called Aam Aadmi Party’s protest against LG ‘theatrics’ adding that it ‘becomes a matter of embarrassment.

SG Tushar Mehta was briefing the Supreme Court on the matter and said that AAP has been resorting to ‘theatrics’ and protests against LG VK Saxena when the question over control of services in Delhi was pending adjudication before a Constitutional bench of the top court, reported ANI. 

Mehta further said that the ‘protests and theatrics’ cannot substitute court proceedings.  

“Protests and theatrics cannot substitute court proceedings,” ANI quoted him as saying. He said that such protests in the National Capital are seen by the world and ‘becomes a matter of embarrassment’. 

The development came a day after both BJP and AAP protested against each other on the very first day of the Delhi assembly’s winter session. 

Delhi Assembly Session: Day 1— AAP's Protest

The first day of the winter session of the Delhi assembly witnessed massive chaos within minutes of its sitting as AAP MLAs marched into the well of the house and shouted slogans against Delhi LG Vinay Saxena.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is leading a march along with Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and AAP MLAs against LG Vinay Saxena for allegedly interfering in the government's work.

"The LG is not our headmaster to check our homework. He has to say yes or no to our proposals," PTI quoted CM Kejriwal as saying.

CM Kejriwal said that the LG did not allow to send Delhi teachers to Finland for training.

The party said that attempt is being made to defame Arvind Kejriwal and "we are not being allowed to work".

However, according to the news agency ANI, it is reiterated that the Delhi LG has not rejected the proposal for training program for Primary-in-charges in Finland. Any statement, on the contrary, is deliberately misleading and mischievously motivated, it added.

"The Government has been advised to evaluate the proposal in totality and record the cost-benefit analysis in terms of impact on the quality of education being provided to students, so as to assess the effectiveness of various foreign training programs for teachers undertaken in the past," ANI reported citing sources.

BJP's Protest

On the other hand, the BJP tried cornering the ruling Aam Aadmi Party on the national capital's pollution. In an innovative way, Delhi BJP MLAs came to the session wearing masks and carrying oxygen cylinders with them. They said that Delhi's air is 'poisonous' and CM Kejriwal is responsible for this.

The three-day winter session of the Delhi legislative assembly began on Monday at 11 am.

MLA Vijender Gupta took to Twitter and said, "With a gas cylinder in tow, I would raise the voice of Delhi’s 2 crore people who have been forced to live in a gas chamber, in the Delhi assembly.  The AAP government must come clean on what they have done to make Delhi pollution free."